Umbrella-holder.



J. STEPHANI.

UMBRELLA HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 23, IBIB.

1 ,286, 1 40. Patented Nov. 26, 1918.

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UMBRELLA-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented N av. 26, 1918.

Application filed September 23, 1918. Serial No. 255,270.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN STEPHANI, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Manitowoc, in the county of Manitowoc and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and Improved Umbrella-Holder, of which the following is a description.

My invention relates to means for holding an umbrella on a wagon or other vehicle and has for its general object to provide an improved holder of a character that will permit of the universal adjustment of the umbrella stick to vary its angular position for affording efiective shelter; together with means to hold the stick in any given adjustment.

More specifically, the invention has for its object to provide a socket-carrying member to receive the lower end of'the stick and a latch therefor, the socket carrier being adapted for adjustment about a shifting center to give any desired angular adjustment longitudinally of the vehicle or transversely, and the latch so arranged that the socket-carrying member may be adjusted independently of the latch and the latter then swung to bind the holder to retain the umbrella stick in the adjusted position.

The invention also has for an object to provide an umbrella holder that may be applied to any vehicle with little modification of the latter and to embody the invention in a construction involving few and simple parts.

Reference is to be had to the accompany ing drawings forming a part of this specification, it being understood that the drawings are merely illustrative of-one example of the invention.

Figure l is a plan view of my improved holder showing the same applied to a vehicle, the latter being partly broken away and the umbrella stick being in horizontal section;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section on the line 22, Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a side view of the attachment, the vehicle parts being in longitudinal vertical section;

Fig. 4 is a separate plan view of the holder.

In carrying out my invention in accordance with the illustrated example, the umbrella stick 10 has a head 11 on the lower end, which is swiveled in a socket 12 permitting universal swinging of the stick 10,

said socket having a pivoted side 12 formed with a slot 12" at one end to engage over a latch pin 12 and by the swinging of the said pivoted side 12, the ready insertion and removal of the umbrella stick is made possible. Above the socket 12 and preferably attached to the front of the seat B is a keeper 13 which may be in the form of a screw-eye through which the umbrella stick is passed and in which it may have free movement in response to the shifting of the socket 12. The socket 12 is carried by a holder 14: preferably in the form of a disk. The holder 14 lies on the bottom a of the vehicle body A and the bolt 15 passes through a slot 16 in said disk through the bottom a, and through a latch bar 17 disposed at the under side of the vehicle body, the bolt passing through said latch bar, near one end. The opposite end 18 of the latch bar 17 is adapted to swing with the bolt 15 as a center beneath a beveled block 19 at the under side of the bottom a. A second bolt 20 passes through an arcuate slot 21, the curvature of which is struck from the bolt 15 as a center so that said bolt will swing in an arcuate path as the latch 17 is swung about the bolt 15.

By the described arrangement the slot 16 permits of the disk 14 being shifted lengthwise of said slot in addition to swinging about the bolt 15, whereby the center of movement afforded to the disk by the bolt 15 may be shifted, thereby variously positioning the socket 12 relatively to the fixed guide 13 to thereby vary the angular position of the stick 10, since obviously said socket and thereby the swiveled lower end of the stick may be shifted lengthwise of the vehicle or transversely to vary the angular position of the stick. In adjusting the position of the stick 10 the latch 17 is released from the beveled block 19 and thereby the.

stick may be swung to any desired position so that its lower end engaging socket 12 will automatically shift the disk 14, said disk turning and sliding independently of latch 17 whereas the swinging of said latch against the beveled block 19 causes the disk to be firmly held in the adjusted position, since the block 19 acting as a wedge disposes the latch bar at an angle to the axes of the bolts 15 and 20, tensioning the same and causing the heads and nuts thereof to have a binding act-ion against the disk and latch bar.

I would state in conclusion that while the illustrated example constitutes a practicalembodiment of my invention, 1 do not limit myself strictly to the mechanical details herein illustrated, since manifestly the same .can be considerably varied without deparin itsown plane to variously position the socket for varying the angularity of the umbrella stick, and means to secure the holder in adjusted position.

An umbrella holder including a socket adapted vto receive the umbrella-stick and permit the universal movement thereof relaively to the socket a disk having afslot therein, bolts extending through said slot and adapted to secure the holder in position on .a bottom of a vehiclebody, or the like, a

aseaeo latch bar pivoted on said bolt, and means to engage said latch bar and bind the same and the disk, the latch bar in the unlatched position permitting independent sliding or turning movement of the disk in its own plane.

3. A holder of the class described including a socket adapted to receive the lower end of an umbrella'stick and permit universal movement of the latter, a relatively fixed keeper forsaid umbrella stick above said socket, a slotted diskcarrying said socket, ,a bolt passing through said slot, a latch bar pivoted near one end to said bolt and adapted to be disposed beneath the bottom of the vehicle body, said disk being adapted to be disposed on the top of said bottom, a second bolt carried by the latch bar near said opposite end and adapted to be passed through the bottom of a vehicle body to swing' with the swinging of the latch bar, about the axis of the first bolt, and a Wedge block relatively to which said latch bar'may be swung to bind the latch bar and disk or to prevent release of said latch bar.

. v JOHN STEPHANI.

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